First Synthesis and Characterization of CH 4 @C 60
First Synthesis and Characterization of CH 4 @C 60
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CH 4 @C 60 的首次合成与表征
DOI:
10.1002/ange.201900983
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发表时间:
2019
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Bloodworth S
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Bloodworth S
The endohedral fullerene CH4@C60, in which each C60fullerene cage encapsulates a single methane molecule, has been synthesized for the first time. Methane is the first organic molecule, as well as the largest, to have been encapsulated in C60to date. The key orifice contraction step, a photochemical desulfinylation of an open fullerene, was completed, even though it is inhibited by the endohedral molecule. The crystal structure of the nickel(II) octaethylporphyrin/ benzene solvate shows no significant distortion of the carbon cage, relative to the C60analogue, and shows the methane hydrogens as a shell of electron density around the central carbon, indicative of the quantum nature of the methane. The1H spin‐lattice relaxation times (T1) for endohedral methane are similar to those observed in the gas phase, indicating that methane is freely rotating inside the C60cage. The synthesis of CH4@C60opens a route to endofullerenes incorporating large guest molecules and atoms.